[Aaronyman]

Anyone else go to rotten tomatoes to see if a movie is worth watching....if it's below 20% then i will almost never watch it, and if it's above 80% i'll make time to watch it....

or at least thats what i used to do....

omfg this pissed me off.....

so we have a file sharing network at my university and I dl'd a bunch of movies that were available.....i forget how many their were but 2 of the ones i grabbed were Half Nelson and Lost in Translation

Lost in Translation's RT score - 95% approved
Half Nelson RT score - 91% approved

wow were those movies completely awful. Lost in translation was a pathetic attempt to be artistic showing 2 extremely socially awkward people meeting and whining about how their life sucks ass.....Half Nelson was basically Ryan gosling pretending to act like some fcking moron on drugs and tries to make us feel sorry for him with....

Please, someone who has seen either of these movies tell me I'm right....I'm pissed that I just wasted 4 hours of my life on complete and utter artistic trash

[ZZtigerZZ81]

I didn't hate Lost in Translation nearly as much as you but I certainly did not enjoy it.

[Aaronyman]

sometimes i wonder if rotten tomatoes is one big scam that gets us to watch shitty movies and not watch good ones....

[Steph05050]

Originally Posted by Aaronyman

sometimes i wonder if rotten tomatoes is one big scam that gets us to watch shitty movies and not watch good ones....

well both of those movies were nominated and won oscars so i didnt like them either but apparently they were good to others

[Aaronyman]

maybe the movies just weren't for me.....i just thought that movies that highly ranked and that evidently won oscars were liked by almost everyone....and since i liked neither i thought something was up....

[TraMaI]

I dont watch anythign thats been nominated usually lol. I enjoy lesser known movies and forgein stuff TBH. theres some damn good korean/japanese movies out there. Go look up a movie called oldboy and tell me its not amazing :P I've never been to RT either, I use IMDB for my movie stuff.

[Couchwarrior]

I can't really see why this means Rottentomatoes sucks. All they do is collect all reviews they can find of a movie and then count how many of them were positive. So if you don't agree with their ratings, it just means you don't agree with most movie critics.

[XitUp]

Originally Posted by TraMaI

I dont watch anythign thats been nominated usually lol. I enjoy lesser known movies and forgein stuff TBH. theres some damn good korean/japanese movies out there. Go look up a movie called oldboy and tell me its not amazing :P I've never been to RT either, I use IMDB for my movie stuff.

Speilberg and Will Smith are doing a remake of it

[eric2004bc]

is lost in translation the one were the 2 guys meet in a car crash? and one of them is like a lawyer or soemthing

[name goes here]

Hehehe, no. Its the one with Scarlet Johansen and Bil Murray sort of flirting but sort of just being lonely. I don't really remember it, it was ok, 7/10 I'd say. Though then again I thought graphic novel 'the watchmen' is overated so...